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Agreed. More than likely, it is in violation to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
"Meditation has what do with this, exactly?"

I think you are taking an extreme position on this issue. Meditation may not have everything to do with this but it does play a significant part. In my experience, meditation helps you analyze, hold and channel your thought process better. If your thought process is better, you have better control over your impulses.
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It speaks more towards the outlandish expense of EC2 (for us) than it does the true actual expense.

A few things:

Eliminate the middle men. Who do the small/medium datacenters use to build their custom hosting hardware? It's likely someone like Ma Labs where you get quite a savings over Amazon/Newegg, particularly when you buy components for many servers at a time.

Pay in advance, when it makes sense and is possible. Talk to colo operators, you can likely get a better deal if you pay for 1/3 years up front.

When you build the hardware yourself, you can do things no operator can do for you... tailor it exactly for your own domain needs.

Analyzing your domain needs to define server roles that you might need (e.g. load balancer, app server, relational database, hadoop cluster, nosql database, key/value stores like redis, etc) will lead you to commonalities in hardware/components needs. Now you can develop a few physical server types, order in bulk, and not have to keep so many spare components on hand.

For us, we are able to split out our datacenters by "critical"/"non-critical" for huge cost savings. Our "critical" datacenters host traditional production level servers. Things that MUST have up times of four/five nines. We can get 50Mbps 95th percentile, quarter rack, 10 amp for roughly $400 a month. These are great, but you have to make the most of each U.

We do a lot of machine learning, map/reduce, and general processing. The app needs this, but because I coded for it... if the uptime is, say, 99% and not 99.9999% it has VERY little impact on our end users (think of these as worker dynos). Now, I can have a whole rack here at the office able to handle for 90% of outages without issue. The nice thing about this is, I no longer have to make the most of each U. I can now build servers completely different than I would in a traditional datacenter. It also comes with little added expense to our normal operations (add redundant internet, networking, UPSes, and insurance). I can build a 1u, 25 ECU-equiv, 32GB, SSD based server for ~1.1k. Fill the rack! :)
My keyboard has arrows and therefore I'm going to use those.

And I'm not getting off our lawn.
I can confirm this. I wiped all tiles and stepped ahead a hundred frames, but nothing new appeared. As soon as I hit 'play' though, within a dozen or so frames a few random tiles appeared in the vicinity and the area was soon teeming with life again.
They have posted an update on twitter about it. ( https://twitter.com/posterous/status/256828008432824320 )
When discussing the idea that our universe is simulated, often the assumption is that it's an experiment by aliens or somesuch. But recently I've started to wonder if our parent universe is nearly identical to our own, and we are one of millions of virtual Earths used for political and economic predictions, because if (when) we could, that's exactly what we would do.
Lots of things going on. Usually, if it's a small startup not enough time was spent thinking about the idea. In large companies, it's usually the result of an entrenched position where many benefit from that position and feel threatened if questioned.
I used to also wait for all the data before I tried things like this. Then due to "reasons" I actually started meditation, daily, for just 10 minutes. I've now been doing it for 3 years and I have no data to give you, but the effects on me are subtle yet profound. If you can spare 10 minutes a day you still won't have any data, but you'll have an answer.
Same for binary & hexadecimal. Man, those guys are engineers indeed. Always going the full mile...
There should be such a site, but after http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2473029 I don't see them as well-suited or interested in being the ones who run it.
Ah, thanks for the information. I'm familiar with signal processing, so the only way I'm used to seeing convolutions is through the multiplication of FFTs. I wasn't even considering the "regular" way.
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The analogy is true, insofar as there are experiments that support it.

https://www.google.com/search?q=willpower+muscle+research

More interestingly, there is research that suggests that believing that willpower is like a muscle impairs willpower. :)

http://pss.sagepub.com/content/21/11/1686
I think when most people say 'meditation' what they mean is 'mindfulness meditation' (and that seems to be the case here). During mindfulness meditation, yes, resisting urges is part of what you're supposed to do.

The basic process goes something like:

1) Sit down in a comfortable position that you can stay in without moving.

2) Take deep breaths through your nose and focus your attention on the sensation of air moving over your nasal passages and into/out of your lungs.

3) When other thoughts come into your head or you find yourself thinking about anything other than your breathing, gently direct your attention back to your breathing.
I am here to tell you the placebo effect is nearly impossible to spot from the inside out. Your brain is just not wired to pierce the veil of selection bias without a lot of effort.

You are saying, "Doing X made me feel good." But I am saying that nearly anything in that X spot might do the same. It's just the way the human mind works.

In testing out Piracetam on myself I've been especially aware of this, because even though I _know_ it can happen I still perceive effects that my testing strategy eliminates as just flights of fancy and imagination.

If meditation really is an amazing wonder practice you claim it is then it should hold up to scrutiny no problem. You can keep doing it, and I might even try it. That doesn't mean we should just pretend all the things this article are saying are true.
I play a game that I call MIKADO where I do everything in the smoothest way trying to generate the smallest amount of sound (or any kind of wave). It comes from a blend of the child game, taichi, and drumming (drumming ask for fine perception of balance shifts and acceleration) and forces me to focus on everything at everytime. From the object of action, its surroundings, myself and my surrounding. Sound seems quite exponential in nature, to avoid noises you really need to be continuously slow, at any sudden movement you'll have a hint, unless you know a path were you can accelerate freely. I find it very relaxing, body and mind. The unawareness of accumulation of changes/accelerations are often the cause of anger, tireness, physical effort. By going smooth and slow, not slow actually, just at your own pace, things appear to cost far less and to give far more.
Well, if you want to use Mad Men as a reference, in S04E12 ("Blowing Smoke"), you can see Don touch typing on a typewriter (at his home, though, not the office) quite proficiently at around the 30 minute mark.
I wish Apple would publish a list of common misconceptions including things like this. I see lots of code where tons of UI drawing is being done that could (and should) be done with images because it's "hardcore" and "fast". But no- it's over complicated and slow!
I think everyone's forgetting that there's a thousand different activities that people call "meditation". Vipassana meditation seems to be what the original article and most of the responses are referring to.
Here's a somewhat older intro video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvo3Mv1Z4qU&feature=playe...
Zapier co-founder here: its funny, but we get this sentiment a lot (for example, from Lu @ Ronin). Its pretty incredible to see developers get these working and we're truly humbled to see the sorts of guys developing on it (Hubspot, Podio, etc...)

If you are curious, there is a little more here: https://zapier.com/developer/
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Fructose is metabolised by the liver, which may only be able to handle so much at a time without negative effects. Raw fruit is digested more slowly than juice due its fibre content, so drinking juice slowly could be worse for your teeth but better for your liver.

Even modern raw fruit are significantly larger and sweeter than a few hundred years ago, so maybe we should just stick to berries.
While I largely agree (and have found that G+ actually is pretty usable under FF16), the point I was highlighting is that Google are (for somewhat understandable reasons) pushing very hard at the concept of what a Web browser is, and what it's used for (they really, really want it to be an app platform, not just a media presentation tool), to the extent that their site degrades significantly under other browsers. Which creates a pain point when Google's own browser fails to function under my preferred OS.

And I don't really see scrapping that OS just to use a single website. There are other alternatives (VMs, etc.), but they're not particularly attractive either.

The IOS6 specificity of The Magazine really is pretty brain-damaged though.
Does Vim (or any of its plugins) support Javascript autocomplete based on type inference?

I'm sure Scripted (or Brackets) can't match Vim general text editing, but if the type inference / CommonJS integration is good - it is certainly an advantage.
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I can second this. I can't begin to count the number of times that spending five minutes walking and with my mind on anything but a given problem has lead to the recognition of a major time-saving change in plans.

Think of it as pulling off of the highway for a minute to check your map instead of trying to unfold it in front of your steering wheel.
> Anyone who has spent say, >3 hours of their life meditating will recognize it as a fact that meditation strengthens your will.

Do you realize how unsupportable this line of thought is? Do I even need to go into this?

How do you know meditation does not actually make this worse? If "willpower" is finite and predicated on physical endurance (as studies suggest), then perhaps sitting here trying to hold your mind "empty" is actually making you less capable of carrying on with the rest of your day!

Why wouldn't 8 hours of sleep, famously known for its ability to inspire ideas, be even more effective?
Yes. It mentions actual studies and evidence.

http://psychcentral.com/news/2011/01/24/brain-structure-chan...
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You're listing these vs. a mouse?

1. Scroll wheel is faster and more precise than pinch, panning by dragging the mouse is about equivalent for panning.

2. Again, panning with the mouse is about equivalent and zoom is easier. A gesture like slide-next can be done with right click + flick.

3. Flinging the mouse wheel is as easy as flinging a finger once. If you want to scroll really far you can middle click, move the mouse down, and wait, vs. flinging over and over.
See, if you just say "the evidence says I am right", while the evidence says the opposite, it is hard to have a reasonable conversation. Rather than cite anecdotes and your perception of how many "researchers" are on your side, how about cite an actual study that controlled for all the factors that can effect income? I posted one, it was even commissioned by the department of labour specifically for policy guidance so they knew how to address the problem that they assumed existed. And yet, it showed there being no gap.
Thank you for the pointers, I'll take a look!
Even from a random starting pattern you will get some complex patterns emerging.

And no, those aren't encoded in Life's rules. They are merely allowed by those.
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> Once you're used to them they handle better and are more comfortable on long rides than most other bike designs.

Well, yeah, that's what they're made for: the best possible experience for people who know what they're doing. Commuter type bicycles are generally meant to be reasonably comfortable for the less bicycle-oriented.
Hmm perhaps if this were more than once a year?
Yeah, I like it to. I wish I could convince other ladies otherwise. Plus, it's just a job, and it's a good job that allows me to have good job security. I think their jobs are boring. Sure, they are working in "cool" fields, but a lot of them are essentially doing secretary work.
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CDO: The guy getting all the worst performance reviews, because when he successfully turns the company away from a bad decision there's no real proof of it. Yeah, maybe he just saved $20 million from being dumped in a rathole, but we'll never know.
BTW, Apple's stock is crashing
You're in for a world of pain when you start parsing docx and pptx. On the bright side, if you can figure out a good solution, you'll likely have a solid business model. I would imagine that there would likely be significant demand for converting docx and pptx files into html or markdown, as a service. If you do come up with a nice, well-documented API for all of this, I'd certainly recommend your service. If you come up with an outstanding docx parser, then I'd use your service myself (I am using my own somewhat primitive solution for a current project involving the conversion of docx files).

Here's a few projects to look at, if you haven't already:

1. http://www.docx4java.org/trac/docx4j
2. https://github.com/mikemaccana/python-docx
There are some interesting forks and more active forks, but this is the original python-docx
There is of course merit in everyone doing critical thinking, certainly. I don't think one obviates the other.

I do think having someone who is culturally allowed to put on the breaks and/or seek clarification about potential bad ideas is also worthwhile, for a couple of reasons I can see right off the bat:

1. It may reduce the 'bystander effect'[1].

2. It may reduce the negative emotional impact of naysaying a popular idea from inside the group that delivers it (subconscious social pressure impact).

The role could of course be abused and become yet another abusive fiefdom, but I think that just makes choosing the right person for the role more important.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect#Taking_respon...
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It's "extreme" to ask for evidence on something testable now. :(
SolrCloud- automated peer-to-peer scaling. Very nicely done.
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Why is "breathing" more effective than, say, "cats"?
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I wonder how much consensus Guido van Rossum had when deciding to break backwards compatibility in Python 3. And Mark Shuttleworth when he made Ubuntu this vastly smoothed-over distro, far more than any predecessor.
This excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki might add another approach to the conversation.

http://www.kingstonkendo.org/mistakesinpractice.pdf
(PDF)
Heh, I implemented the [binary]/[octal]/[hexadecimal]/[hex] ones, and was TL for [let it snow]. :-)
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You should also check out Magnetic Seizure Therapy, which has many similarities to ECT but may also have fewer problems with concentration and memory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_seizure_therapy
what I find really weird is why iOS 6 doesn't run on iPad 1? I know there's an issue with memory, but I think if you disable background apps you essentially get past that.
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Conscious planning may be better than suppressing your concerns and letting them subconsciously stress you all the time.
Even now plenty of feminists are hostile towards transgender and transexual women, it wasn't just a second wave thing. And second wave feminists didn't vanish into nothingness, they still exist, and still advocate hatred. Why would you suggest that people who choose not to identify with that are "being lied to"? Who is lying to them, and what is the lie?

As to your "bullshit" claim, why do you believe that radical gender feminists and third wave feminists are mutually exclusive groups? Mainstream third wave feminists are almost exclusively gender feminists, and they actively seek to deny equity feminists their views and their identity as feminists. They call equity feminists "anti-feminists" and "self-hating misogynists".
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I know it's not nice to enjoy the failure of others, but I'm really pleased to see any free-to-play failure. My most recent misery in this segment is Tiny Troopers. It's a great little game that you can play to pass 2 minutes, or dig in and spend an hour or so working through the campaign missions. The problem is, the game is tainted by free-to-play. It actually makes it a worse game than it could have been.

Gaming is, first and foremost, about balance. If a game is too hard, players get discouraged and give up. Too easy and there is no satisfaction in winning. This is not a secret. Every game developer knows it, and many game enthusiasts are acquainted with the subject once they start to investigate the question of "why" they enjoy a specific game so much.

The trouble with free-to-play is that our wallets end up on the balance scale. How hard, or easy, the game is depends upon how much I'm willing to pump in to this little game. They make the game too hard to play without paying anything, but once you open your wallet, things can easily get way to effortless.

In order to develop truly great games, the developer needs to control the difficulty. I'd rather not have to guess just how much I should pay them in order to get the best experience.
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Thanks for the links! I'll dig into them later.

Having never looked at it myself I'm not really sure why it would be so painful. Are the formats just super wacky?
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But these studies are on noticing structural changes, not changes in the subject's capability.

What makes meditation better at this than, say, sitting down and doing math homework or going out and doing exercise? There's a lot of research to strongly correlate regular physical activity with intelligence (random googled summary with many citations here: http://www.unm.edu/~lkravitz/Article%20folder/brainandex.htm...).
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> It'd be a bigger project than I want to take on, though.

In that case, use the above outline as a litmus test for those who claim real evidence for a particular strategy -- just ask, "Have you done any A/B testing?" It has the advantage of putting the conversation on a quasi-scientific footing, and it impresses people too. :)

> Option number three gauges interest in a scientific manner, but assumes that interest is a valid proxy for the end goal of a sale. I'm not sure how true that assumption is.

Yes, fair enough. But remember that online advertising pays by the click, so someone, somewhere believes it's a valid measure of future sales, even if the click is all there is.

Maybe 500 people click, and only one buys. The outcome is still related to the click-through rate, and the pay-per-click scheme still works. If there was any serious doubt about the value of paying for clicks, people would refuse to pay -- they would try some other approach to online advertising and metrics.

> Testing all the way to the end of the funnel (home sale) is key, and difficult.

Absolutely. You would have to interrogate the buyers, and I venture to guess no one will want to push that idea.
Well I guess I have some citations to read later, but intuitively I just have a hard time believing that lack of training data is the problem. There's so incredibly much data available on the internet. If that was the limiting factor, it would just be a matter of throwing more data at T to increase the amount of information in M, but that doesn't help if we haven't found the right machine learning algorithm L. And searching that space is the real challenge of AI. To search that space we either need human experts, huge amounts of computational power to brute force, or some combination thereof. We've tried human experts alone for decades, without much success, so I think it's likely that we will need some computational assistance to find the right algorithms. That's why AI people love throwing around graphs of Moore's law.
http://www.google.com/search?q=meditation

Some interesting links there.

Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditation
They were initially successful because they build a product that people needed and was good.

They continued to be successful by creating a culture that attracts good people who continue to build good products.
Im with you, this whole thread is quite odd.
What would happen if Newton designed your spaceship? It would miss its target, because his simple idea was not precise enough.
Where doesn't it give appropriate credit?

1. The description line for the Github package reads "Gosper's HashLife in CoffeeScript"

2. The readme says: "Cafe au Life implements Bill Gosper's HashLife algorithm."

3. The docs say "Cafe au Life is based on Bill Gosper's brilliant <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashlife>HashLife</a...; algorithm."
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